That’s a great summation. I’ve always been a little confused about that subject, especially because I think I’ve seen brief scenes from a movie that was somehow related to that song.
Your question, “How is it that I still know duck all about Taiwan after all these years?” fits me perfectly. I know this is going to sound corny, but I think that once when some of my students were talking about how small Taiwan is, I told them about a movie I saw (or I thought I saw) when I was a kid, a movie that depicted a magical house, which looked very small on the outside, but which became huge once a person entered it.
Now I’ll have to go back upthread and look for @tommy525’s “butt-shaking rendition .”